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Master and Commander establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship’s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It displays the qualities which have put O’Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard an early 19th-century man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea.
O’Brian’s portrayal of each of these is faultless, and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly.
Master and Commander establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship’s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It displays the qualities which have put O’Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard an early 19th-century man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea.
O’Brian’s portrayal of each of these is faultless, and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly.
>Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written....
Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born
Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best
known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy
during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English
naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen
Maturin.
The 20-novel series, the first of which is Master and Commander, is
known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of
early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative
language. A partially finished twenty-first novel in the series was
published posthumously containing facing pages of handwriting and
typescript. Ric Jerrom is an actor, writer and highly established
audiobook narrator. He is a leading performer and director with the
UK comedy theatre ensemble, Natural Theatre Company. He has
narrated a number of titles from big-name authors including Ruth
Rendell, Patrick O’Brian and Barbara Taylor Bradford.
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